South Korea Lunar New Year

New year s day is a family holiday and the lunar new year is a three day event in korea.

South korea lunar new year. Records of 7th century korean new year celebrations are included in the chinese historical works the book of sui and the old book of tang. This celebration marks the traditional korean lunar new year. This year korean lunar new year is from the 24th to 26th of january.

Lunar new year 2020 south korea in south korea each lunar year is represented by one of twelve animals in the rotation of the korean zodiac calendar and 2020 is the year of the rat. Most people try to return to their family homes to spend time with relatives and to honor ancestors. During the holiday period many koreans head back to their hometown to see their families and pay respect to their ancestors.

By the 13th century korean new year was one of the nine major korean festivals. The earliest references to korean new year are believed to be found in the 3rd century chinese historical work records of the three kingdoms book of wei volume 30.